Latest posts for the topic "Freestyle Skiing?"

Freestyle Skiing?

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:05:48 GMT

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.. First off, Happy new year to you all.

Now, I am new to these forums and this is my first post.
I've been skiing since January 2008 - I was given a surprise 18th birthday present and it was a skiing trip to Vamorel in France - Now, this was the time of my life.. So much fun and it's incredible how much peace skiing can bring to the human mind. Skiing is now my most favourite thing in the world.

I live in Glasgow and for those of you who know about it, I can easily travel to the indoor ski slopes at Braehead - Xscape, so for a while now I've been going here..
Since then I've slowly built a love towards freestyle skiing - I get such a rush from trying it..
I was just generally wondering if there are any freestyle skiers on here? Not even professional, just anyone who likes to try the odd kicker or box/rail slide or even those who've stomped their first 180!
I'd like to talk with them to get an idea of how they got better!

I've recently bought my own equipment - Dynastar Nothing But Trouble skis (Twintips) and a pair of Salomon SPK Kaos boots. Great gear, love it.

Cheers, take care and happy skiing!

Freestyle Skiing?

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:17:11 GMT

Dynastar Nothin' But Trouble-Good sticks. Good to have someone bringing the average age down :D

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:17:28 GMT

Hi and welcome to j2ski, I think souldrive likes a bit of freestyle but the lucky bugger goes on his holidays tomorrow.Hang around there`s bound to more folk`s into that kind of thing.

AJ Adele

Freestyle Skiing?

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:20:48 GMT

RossF wrote:Dynastar Nothin' But Trouble-Good sticks. Good to have someone bringing the average age down :D

Cheeky devil :lol:

Freestyle Skiing?

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:12:00 GMT

baillie353 wrote:Good evening ladies and gentlemen.. First off, Happy new year to you all.

Now, I am new to these forums and this is my first post.
I've been skiing since January 2008 - I was given a surprise 18th birthday present and it was a skiing trip to Vamorel in France - Now, this was the time of my life.. So much fun and it's incredible how much peace skiing can bring to the human mind. Skiing is now my most favourite thing in the world.

I live in Glasgow and for those of you who know about it, I can easily travel to the indoor ski slopes at Braehead - Xscape, so for a while now I've been going here..
Since then I've slowly built a love towards freestyle skiing - I get such a rush from trying it..
I was just generally wondering if there are any freestyle skiers on here? Not even professional, just anyone who likes to try the odd kicker or box/rail slide or even those who've stomped their first 180!
I'd like to talk with them to get an idea of how they got better!

I've recently bought my own equipment - Dynastar Nothing But Trouble skis (Twintips) and a pair of Salomon SPK Kaos boots. Great gear, love it.

Cheers, take care and happy skiing!

I think you are doing extremely well to have only been skiing since 2008 and you're talking " kickers & Box/rails
" what ever they are, so well done. 8)

Freestyle Skiing?

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:07:36 GMT

RossF wrote:Dynastar Nothin' But Trouble-Good sticks. Good to have someone bringing the average age down :D

True of them being good sticks - although I almost started crying when I scratched them a little.. It went straight to my heart! haha.
Bringing the average age down? :lol: Can never be too old to start learning new things! :D

Ian Wickham wrote: I think you are doing extremely well to have only been skiing since 2008 and you're talking " kickers & Box/rails
" what ever they are, so well done. 8)

Thanks for the compliment there Ian.. Just determination I guess, can't let it put you off.
Speaking of which, I had a bad accident almost 3 months ago now - I went off a pretty big kicker and it threw me high up and landed on an air bag ski's down (as you're meant to do).. but the air bag itself was about 10 feet high and I done a flip (because of the momentum of landing, my ski's had stuck to the surface of the air bag) and I landed on my head on hard snow.. Was paralised for a good while, taken to hospital and treated for a broken spine - Turns out I'd severly damaged the muscle in my pelvis and in the bottom of the spine - L4 section or something they said.
So for a years skiing I already have a little story to tell people - was very lucky to walk again though :!:

Freestyle Skiing?

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:09:59 GMT

baillie353 wrote:

RossF wrote:Dynastar Nothin' But Trouble-Good sticks. Good to have someone bringing the average age down :D

True of them being good sticks - although I almost started crying when I scratched them a little.. It went straight to my heart! haha.
Bringing the average age down? :lol: Can never be too old to start learning new things! :D

You will get on well here with that attitude, I am from Helensburgh to give you a point of reference. Yeh, I had some snowboarder go across the back of my TM's at Braehead and went nuts, was not impressed.

Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:37:59 GMT

baillie353 wrote:

RossF wrote:Dynastar Nothin' But Trouble-Good sticks. Good to have someone bringing the average age down :D

True of them being good sticks - although I almost started crying when I scratched them a little.. It went straight to my heart! haha.
Bringing the average age down? :lol: Can never be too old to start learning new things! :D

Ian Wickham wrote: I think you are doing extremely well to have only been skiing since 2008 and you're talking " kickers & Box/rails
" what ever they are, so well done. 8)

Thanks for the compliment there Ian.. Just determination I guess, can't let it put you off.
Speaking of which, I had a bad accident almost 3 months ago now - I went off a pretty big kicker and it threw me high up and landed on an air bag ski's down (as you're meant to do).. but the air bag itself was about 10 feet high and I done a flip (because of the momentum of landing, my ski's had stuck to the surface of the air bag) and I landed on my head on hard snow.. Was paralised for a good while, taken to hospital and treated for a broken spine - Turns out I'd severly damaged the muscle in my pelvis and in the bottom of the spine - L4 section or something they said.
So for a years skiing I already have a little story to tell people - was very lucky to walk again though :!:

hehehehe :roll: :oops: :D I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you. Welcome to the forums

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:53:27 GMT

Thanks IceGhost! :-)

Have many people been to Alpe D'Huez? :-) I'm booked up to go on the 24th of this month - Can't wait!
I read that there are two snowparks (anyone know if they're any good?) And also they have a flood-lit slope for night time skiing - I've always wanted to try this, anyone ever done it? How was it? :-)

Cheers!

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:57:03 GMT

Don't know about the park but remember to ski within your limits, there are some seriously big hits and have witnessed some people get hurt pretty bad. The progression is generally pretty good in parks about just now, start small and work up. They had some pretty big problems at RCR but there was no real progression-people hitting 60 footers without any jump experience=bad times. Night skiing is cool as but pretty limited. Something everyone should try..

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:09:33 GMT

RossF wrote:Don't know about the park but remember to ski within your limits, there are some seriously big hits and have witnessed some people get hurt pretty bad. The progression is generally pretty good in parks about just now, start small and work up. They had some pretty big problems at RCR but there was no real progression-people hitting 60 footers without any jump experience=bad times. Night skiing is cool as but pretty limited. Something everyone should try..

Of course, I have started small :-) I hear there is one park for beginners and one for experts - I'll be lingering around the beginner park.. Hurting yourself gets you nowhere is what I've learned :lol:
Night time skiing does sound pretty cool, I seen an image of it featured on the Alpe D'Huez website;
http://www.alpedhueznet.com/popup.php?filename=image_uploader/photos/large/adh-night-skiing-slope.jpg&pic_height=333

Pretty limited like you said, but can't judge it until you've tried it at least.. The good thing about it is the price is included in the lift pass so no extra cost :-) Still unhappy about the prices of lift passes mind you, but we can't do anything about it :wink:

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:16:20 GMT

A pass for 6 days in Banff is GBP320 or so, still unhappy? :wink:

Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:44:29 GMT

GBP280 ross lets not exaggerate! :P

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:04:14 GMT

My bad I was looking at a 7 day when I was thinking about booking. It is quite sad that you looked that up, Chris :wink:

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:04:13 GMT

Have a fantastic holiday and keep off the kickers !!!!!! 8)

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:28:31 GMT

baillie, I'm looking at getting into freestyle skiing.

I've been skiing about a year like you and I go to Chill Factor in Manchester. Also like you it has become my most favourite thing to do. I'm hooked.

So anyway, freestyling. Did you get any tuition or did you just throw yourself on some rails/jumps and hope for the best?
Once I get back from my holiday in February (The missus won't let me go before then in case a break something) I'm going to be going to some GROM Camps at chill factor. It's basically a bunch of professional freestylers doing some mass coaching. GBP30 for 3 hours including all slope fees. Don't know if you have heard of it but I'll attach the link to their website. I'm pretty sure they run them up in Scotland too.

http://www.salomongromcamps.co.uk/

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:30:46 GMT

bigdave85 wrote:baillie, I'm looking at getting into freestyle skiing.

I've been skiing about a year like you and I go to Chill Factor in Manchester. Also like you it has become my most favourite thing to do. I'm hooked.

So anyway, freestyling. Did you get any tuition or did you just throw yourself on some rails/jumps and hope for the best?
Once I get back from my holiday in February (The missus won't let me go before then in case a break something) I'm going to be going to some GROM Camps at chill factor. It's basically a bunch of professional freestylers doing some mass coaching. GBP30 for 3 hours including all slope fees. Don't know if you have heard of it but I'll attach the link to their website. I'm pretty sure they run them up in Scotland too.

http://www.salomongromcamps.co.uk/

I will give you my 2c. Go for it yourself, start small and build up, just make sure you are using the appropriate equipment/wearing the right protection. Obviously lessons would speed up the process perhaps to the point where you could continue on without lessons but it can be done without.

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:31:09 GMT

I will give you my 2c. Go for it yourself, start small and build up, just make sure you are using the appropriate equipment/wearing the right protection. Obviously lessons would speed up the process perhaps to the point where you could continue on without lessons but it can be done without.

I expect I'll be doing a bit of both to start with. Probably just going to the occasional GROM Camp for fine tuning and advice.
It's my aim for 2009 anyway. )

Freestyle Skiing?

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:11:52 GMT

didn't look it up ross noticed it when pricing up a holiday next jan! :lol:

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:34:51 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:Have a fantastic holiday and keep off the kickers !!!!!! 8)

Don't you worry Ian, the holiday will be immense and I won't be doing anything crazy :-) Piste skiing is a lot of fun on its own with a little off-piste action too! :wink:

bigdave85 wrote:baillie, I'm looking at getting into freestyle skiing.

I've been skiing about a year like you and I go to Chill Factor in Manchester. Also like you it has become my most favourite thing to do. I'm hooked.

So anyway, freestyling. Did you get any tuition or did you just throw yourself on some rails/jumps and hope for the best?
Once I get back from my holiday in February (The missus won't let me go before then in case a break something) I'm going to be going to some GROM Camps at chill factor. It's basically a bunch of professional freestylers doing some mass coaching. GBP30 for 3 hours including all slope fees. Don't know if you have heard of it but I'll attach the link to their website. I'm pretty sure they run them up in Scotland too.

http://www.salomongromcamps.co.uk/

Up here in Scotland we don't get these things such as the chill factor - we do get freestyle nights in the Xscape in Braehead however and I've had a number of freestyle coaching sessions - The instructor I had is fantastic - Made me really confident with rails and I can do them with ease now, feels great to be able to do it! I'm sure the price was 2 and half hours of coached session for GBP35, which isn't too bad.
The chill factor stuff sounds cool mate, hope you have a lot of fun and be careful to not get hurt too badly, eh? :-)

Re:Freestyle Skiing?

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:41:38 GMT